The Americas did not have horses. This largest domesticated animal was found in the Andes mountains.
What is the Llama?
100
These people were the first to visit and settle in North America, at a place called L'Anse Aux Meadows.
Who are the Vikings?
100
Europeans had polluted their rivers so badly that they began to fish here, which lead to further exploration.
What is the Ocean?
100
This country is the only one in South America that speaks Portugese.
What is Brazil?
100
This was responsible for the deaths of a vast number of Native Americans, making colonization much easier for the Europeans.
What is disease?
200
The first example of genetic modification by humans is this hardy plant grown in the Americas.
What is Corn?
200
Christopher Columbus sailed not as an Italian, but for Queen Isabella of this country.
What is Spain?
200
Shipbuilding lead to this problem for the Europeans, and this problem encouraged them to expand their territory.
What is Deforestation?
200
The Northwest Passage, to the Panama Canal, to Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America are all ways of accomplishing the main exploratory goal of the European Empires.
What is a sea route to Asia?
200
This domesticated animal gave Europeans a distinct advantage over the Native American warriors in battle.
What are Horses?
300
This tuber found in America became a staple crop for many of the peasants of Europe, most notably the Irish
What is the potato?
300
This French explorer discovered the St. Lawrence River and has a modern day bridge named after him.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
300
Trading with Asia and India came to a standstill and forced the Europeans to explore sea routes to the Far East, because of the fall of this city.
What is Constantinople/Istanbul?
300
France, England, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands were the big explorers of the age of discovery, largely due to this common geographical feature.
What is they are all Coastal Countries?
300
European weapons were vastly superior to Native weapons, due to the use of this material.
What is metal/iron/steel?
400
Native Americans managed their landscape, and attracted the buffalo (or bison) herds by doing this.
What is burning the grasslands?
400
This man, another Italian, discovered the route around Africa to reach India.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
400
A book by this European explorer, the first one ever, lead many people to believe that Asia and India had an overabundance of gold, silk and spices.
Who is Marco Polo?
400
The European empires of this age preferred sea exploration to expansion of trade routes or territory within Europe because of this reason.
What is it was easier/less dangerous/less costly than travelling through Constantinople/Istambul?
400
This great North American Empire was defeated by the Conquistador Hernan Cortes
What is The Aztec Empire?
500
This tribe had to abandon their large city in the Chaco Canyon, due to deforestation.
Who are The Anisazi?
500
He was the first man to attempt to circumnavigate (go around) the world, though he died in the Phillipines before he could accomplish his task.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
The King of France believed that a good King would try to spread this to the Native People of the Americas.
What is Christianity/Religion?
500
This Empire easily outstripped its rivals over the next few centuries in terms of global expansion, due in large part to their vastly superior navy.
What is Britain?
500
Francisco Pizarro and 168 men were largely responsible for the fall of this American Empire found high in the Andes, the civilization responsible for World Heritage sites like Machu Picchu.